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The adoption of the Eurepgap Standard by Mango Exporters in Piura, Peru
Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - 2006
The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442499
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Market microstructure factors in the determination of oil prices
González Pedraz, Carlos; González Pérez, María Teresa
negative for the first time in history. Other crude prices also posted very low values and their volatility soared, far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012524978
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Regulation of International Financial Markets by Transactions Taxes: The Effect of the Tobin Tax on Trade Volume und Exchange Rate Volatility
Haberer, Markus - 2006
volatility on foreign exchange markets. Starting point is the market participant's microeconomic investment decision, which is … trading volume and volatility on foreign exchange markets. We apply various two-country-models with representative market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471738
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Trading Systems, Volatility, and the Regulation of Stock Markets: An Investigation of the Microstructure of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Henke, Harald - 2004
into volatility persistence in stock returns. In part two, I show that the introduction of continuous trading on the WSE is … volatility on days after limit hits and positive autocorrelation in stock returns. I do not find significant advantages of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460735
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Preferential Tariffs, WTO and Developing Countries: Do the Gains from Multilateral Market Access Outweigh Preferential Access?
Elbehri, Aziz; Wainio, John - 2006
WTO trade negotiations on market access follow the MFN treatment. However, an increasing share of trade falls under preferential regimes. For agriculture, trade liberalization analyses have showed that the impact on developing countries (DC) is not uniform, partly from omitting preferences. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442468
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY
Paz, Lourenco Senne - 2009
In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a large share of the workforce, more than 30% in Brazil and Colombia, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450753
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Globalization and child labor
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010
Handelsliberalisierung auf das Angebot von Kinderarbeit analysiert die Effekte von Einkommensumverteilung durch Außenhandel, und zeigt, dass … Auswirkungen von Handelsliberalisierung auf Kinderarbeit und Schulbesuch in Indonesien für den Zeitraum 1993-2002. Es wird gezeigt … Handelsliberalisierung stärker ausgesetzt waren. Dies war insbesondere dem größeren Rückgang an Armut in diesen Regionen zu verdanken.Aus der …
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The Impact of Foreign Investments on the Achievement of Economic Growth
Maitah, M.; Salim, N. - 2010
This article deals with the analysis of the positive side of the foreign direct investments in the World´s economy. The importance of this research is derived from the significant role that can be played by foreign investments in industrialized and developing countries. Some countries are still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443658
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Are The Poverty Effects of Trade Policies Invisible?
Verma, Monika; Valenzuela, Ernesto; Hertel, Thomas W. - 2010
. Yet some in this debate haveargued that, given the extreme volatility in agricultural commodity markets, theadditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446160
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The political economy of water and sanitation in developing countries : cross-country evidence and a case study on Colombia
Krause, Matthias - 2007
Advances in human development are closely linked to increasing access to water and sanitation services in developing countries. The present study investigates the role of governance for mastering this challenge. The motivation for choosing this subject is the insight that the focus on...
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